Umanità e ambiente nell’immaginario giapponese. Dall’estetica di corte ai matrimoni interspecie

In recent years, the dualism between Culture and Nature has been the subject of extensive critical reappraisal, aimed at overcoming an anthropocentrism no longer adequate to contemporary life’s environmental and technological scenarios. Ecocritical attention to certain twentieth-century authors has also intensified within Japanese literary studies. Through anecdotal sources from popular literature, this contribution investigates the relationship between humanity and the environment in the Japanese tradition, assessing possible departures from anthropocentrism. After an analysis of the bond between nature and aesthetics in classical poetry, focus shifts to interspecies marriage narratives in Japanese myths, to outline relational models between humans and their environment